Hyderabad, Sep 11 - A team of the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), probing the Sep 2 helicopter crash that killed Andhra Pradesh chief minister Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and four others Friday quizzed officials at the Begumpet Airport here. It is one of the four probes being conducted into the horrible accident.

The team met airport officials including those responsible for the maintenance of the chopper and its inspection before flying and weather officials to find out if they had carried out their assigned duties.

The DGCA officials also questioned air traffic control staff to ascertain what happened before the chopper crashed in bad weather on a hillock in the dense Nallamalla forests in Kurnool district.

They also met officials of Andhra Pradesh Aviation Corporation Ltd (APACL), which is responsible for the upkeep and maintenance of government helicopters.

The helicopter carrying the chief minister, his special secretary, chief security officer and two pilots had taken off from the old airport at Begumpet for Chittoor district, where the chief minister was scheduled to launch a mass contact programme.

The bodies of all five victims and the chopper's wreckage were found Sep 3, a day after the chopper went missing.

The DGCA team arrived here from Kurnool, where it held a meeting with police and civil officials and also gathered clues at the crash site in the past two days.

The four-member team headed by R.K. Tyagi, chairman and managing director of Pawan Hans, spent several hours on the crash site, meticulously examining every piece of debris.